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On view April 8–October 30, 2005

Extreme Textiles was the first major museum exhibition to explore the extraordinary innovations occurring in technical textiles. Featuring over 150 fully realized products or projects, the exhibition showed how these incredible new materials are revolutionizing the fields of architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, and the environment.
 



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